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Escaping Pagosa to Cerro Pedernal Studio Tour

By Thanks to Beth Ferguson | Jun 9, 2008



Where to go on a little bit of gas.






Pagosa's neighbors to the south have a vibrant art tradition that lives today along the shores of Abiqui Lake. A short drive takes you to rewarding places and visions. Anytime is good but go June 21-22 for the studio tour. Watch this page over the next few weeks for more examples of Pedernal art.

Pedernal Mountain

P5170019_edited1On Saturday, the School for Advanced Research sponsored a field trip to Tsi-p'in-owinge Pueblo. Tsi-p'in-owinge means Village at Flaking Stone Mountain. It was probably inhabited from the late thirteenth century through the mid-fifteenth, abandoned before the Spanish came to New Mexico.

Tsi-p'in-owinge is on a mesa above the town of Caņones, above Abiquiu, between Ghost Ranch and Cerro Pedernal. Georgia O'Keeffe fans will recognize some of those places. Caņones is a very tucked-away New Mexico village. The trail to Tsi-p'in-owinge used to start in Caņones. But too many people looking in windows, asking directions, disrupted the residents' lives, so we used the new trail, eight switchbacks down from a still-higher mesa. We stopped at Bode's General Store in Abiquiu for delicious breakfast burritos, and then drove up a Forest Service road to the trailhead.

See above article here.

See photos of Pedernal Mountain here.

See maps and touring information here.

Samples of Pedernal art updated.

Golden Afternoon by Beth Ferguson

Shifted Citadel by Aggie Villanueva

Pedernal Weaving by Cleo Salazar

Homage by Jan West Volpe

Across the Lake by Beth Ferguson

Tewa Tees by Betty Tsosie

Consuleos Gallery

Vernon Ortega

Able Martinez

Emmy Chaney Pots







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